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Sinn Fein wants referendum in N. Ireland to leave UK

Following calls on Monday by Scotland's leader for a new independence referendum, Northern Ireland's largest Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, has announced the need for a referendum on splitting from the United Kingdom "as soon as possible". "Brexit will be a disaster for the economy, and a disaster for the people of Ireland. A referendum on Irish unity has to happen as soon a possible," party leader Michelle O'Neill said.